Once again Rei Kawakubo presented a spectacle that was mesmerising, when we thought fashion was getting too fast Kawakubo comes in to slow it all down.
A large spotlight hanging over the catwalk swung back and forth above the model’s heads; with the sound of cogs turning and each look with its own accompanying song, from piano to grand orchestral strings – this Comme Des Garçons collection felt more like an installation and showed Kawakubo pushing the idea of wearable fashion to the absolute limit.
Proportions were big with hoop skirts, frills and ruffles squashes onto the body, sandwich board-size dresses and tunics of stiff or solid shape. One model stepped out in a black dress bunched up inside a pair of vast, bulbous knickers, spilling ruffled layers. Another resembled a black inflated donut. These pieces were over-the-top creations, not clothes but an amazing spectacle with the punk moment signature of Comme Des Garçons rebellion.
Not a single wearable piece in the collection but we felt the exhilaration and the intense feeling, like great art this is what Comme Des Garçons presents us with every season.
Images courtesy of Style.com
by Annie Fong